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[jemimah]

Awesome! I will add this to my next release of Puppeee and Fluppy.

[jemimah]

If you make this modification, then the drives with out labels will line up vertically.

[jemimah]

I don't suppose anyone's interested in writing a simple GUI to change the disk label?

Note that Gparted can do it, but Mtools must be installed to change FAT labels. Mtools 4 doesn't seem to work, but Mtools3 does.

[akash_rawal]

[abushcrafter]

Thanks muchly. I have been wanting this for a long time .

What about drive labels for mount points? Would it be possible to have links in "/media" pointing to mount points in "/mnt"? Then drive icons will show up in the side panel of the GTK File Dialogue .

[jemimah]

I got the mount point names working. Unfortunately a symlink to /media is not good enough. The drive must actually be mounted there.

EDIT: Moving everything to /media doesn't seem to really cause any problems. I wonder if there's any gotchas I'm not thinking of.

[abushcrafter]

[disciple]

Might be easier to patch GTK to use /mnt instead of /media

[jemimah]

[jemimah]

Great! I now have a working patch for libgio that fixes this.

[abushcrafter]

[jemimah]

Yup I've fixed that too.

[abushcrafter]

So why does the syslink "/mnt/home" work then?

Looking forward to you sharing your goodies . I hope they could be squeezed into the next/current Lupu, LHP and Wary releases.

[Sit Heel Speak]

Thank you very much akash_rawal and upnorth and jemimah, this is really useful!

Suggestion --if anyone is skilled enough and cares:

When the drive icons are arranged vertically, as in this screencap, the justification of the labels (both volume label and partition drive+number) should not be "center" but rather should match the orientation of the icons, e.g. "right", "left". This will enable placement of the drive icon as close to the edge as possible, which allows a little bit bigger windows without totally eclipsing the drive icons.

Also it would allow perfect alignment even in the case when some (or in my case, most) of the drive partitions do not have volume labels.

I must say...the screencap is of Puppy Studio 3.3's icewm, on a 20" monitor at 1600x1200, with the positions of the icewm taskbar and wbar swapped...drive icons told to line up "left" in
/etc/eventmanager...gkrellm added...this Puppy Studio 3.3 version of icewm (icewm-1.3.7pre2-L519-lucid) is the best window manager I have ever seen in Puppy. Windows open in logical places and usually at reasonable sizes. It is even better than openbox and enlightenment e17. And that's saying something.

If it were possible to set margins in icewm, like you can in openbox, it is hard to imagine how it could be better. Well, maybe if it had the same right-click-on-titlebar, remember-position-and-size that e17 has. But even without an explicit remember function it does much better than jwm, openbox, e17 and earlier versions of icewm as far as opening new windows in logical places.

[nooby]

Looks very helpful this one.

Don't get angry now but when one do search using google then labels and Label can get mixed very easily

labels being what can be read under the icon on a desktop
Label being the UUID that is a random? long unintelligent uuid 7ak5.... human not easily remembered line of chars.

Desktop label
Harddisk label